{"id":2681,"date":"2020-12-16T15:34:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2020-12-16T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T21:34:42","slug":"the-nickel-boys-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"The Nickel Boys: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Colson Whitehead, Audiobook narrated by J.D. Jackson, 2019, Random House Audio<\/p>\n

This is a dramatized novel about two boys who were incarcerated at a boy’s school in Northern Florida.\u00c2\u00a0 The school was closed a number of years ago but a graveyard was recently discovered containing a number of unmarked graves where boys who supposedly escaped were buried.\u00c2\u00a0 Many of the remains showed signs that the boys were beaten to death<\/p>\n

The novel does a good job of showing the kinds of abuse that the boys suffered while at the school and particularly the long term effects on their lives after the survivors were released.\u00c2\u00a0 The book, however, leaves out entirely how the graves were discovered, the acknowledgement by the State of Florida of what went on there, and whether anyone was ever held accountable.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, it focused on the life of one of the boys after he managed to escape.\u00c2\u00a0 I felt that this omission left the story somewhat incomplete.<\/p>\n

The book is well written and impactful, but it jumped around a bit in its presentation so it was sometimes a little hard to follow.\u00c2\u00a0 The narration in this audiobook was good.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s not at all enjoyable, however, simply because of the subject matter.\"3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Colson Whitehead, Audiobook narrated by J.D. Jackson, 2019, Random House Audio This is a dramatized novel about two boys who were incarcerated at a boy’s school in Northern Florida.\u00c2\u00a0 The school was closed a number of years ago but …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-2681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2681\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}